John Lewis Partnership, one of the United Kingdom’s leading retailers, owns and operates 30 John Lewis department stores, 10 John Lewis at-home stores and 302 Waitrose supermarkets. The organization also runs a substantial online business through www.johnlewis.com and www.waitrose.com, in addition to business-to-business contracts in the UK and abroad.

John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest example of worker co-ownership where all 85,000 employees are partners in the business. Partners are dedicated to delivering excellent customer service and share in the benefits and profits of the business. John Lewis was named “Retailer of the Year 2013” at the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2013.

Challenges

A word from John Lewis Partnership

"With Oracle WebCenter Portal, our partners have secure,
straightforward, and instant access to a wide range of human resources
services from any location. We also laid a strong foundation for future
developments and growth within the organization.”

Centralize personnel services by forming a new shared-service center to streamline services, improve efficiency, and offer all employees self-service functionality from the office, home, or geographically dispersed retail stores

Save time and costs by replacing manual, time-intensive human resources processes with an easy-to-use, self-service platform that enables employees to be more self-sufficient in managing their human-resources queries

Enable the John Lewis Partnership to better manage growth in the quickly changing, customer-centric retail industry by building a strong and flexible infrastructure to improve management of core back-office processes, including personnel management

Eliminated inefficient manual processes to request holidays, administer leave requests, and check payroll details by encouraging employees to use self-service for 60% of all transactions—reducing the time and costs associated with requesting information by telephone, e-mail, or in person

Enabled employees to access the portal, 24/7, while at work in the head office or branch offices, via terminals in all retail stores, or at home using secure identity management, providing the most convenient way to review personnel information, ask questions, and make requests

Provided automated updates and notifications via e-mail to work, home, or SMS-text message to advise line managers and employees when they must complete personnel tasks, such as providing feedback for performance reviews

Improved efficiency of leave-request reviews and approvals by providing employees and line managers with all relevant information up-front, such as who else is on holiday at a particular time, by integrating the online portal with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Delivered graphical representation of managers’ hierarchy through the portal to help managers navigate the system in a user-friendly way

Established an Oracle WebCenter platform to deliver the flexibility required for additional functionality; further integrations with multiple applications, including Oracle Learning Management; and to deliver additional services throughout John Lewis Partnership in the future

Why Oracle

“Oracle is our strategic partner of choice, and by working with a single vendor, we benefit from consistency across technology, service, and support,” said Stephen Oliphant, technical application architect, Oracle business service center, John Lewis Partnership.

“The scalability of the Oracle solution is very important. One of the key drivers for this transformation project was to support the rate of change and growth within John Lewis Partnership. By partnering with Oracle, we can deploy the right technology to provide a good service to the business and to scale as our organization grows,” said Oliphant.

Partner

John Lewis Partnership chose Oracle Diamond Partner Hitachi Consulting as the lead systems integrator to provide expertise and resources for its organization-wide HR transformation program. Hitachi led a team of partners and worked with John Lewis Partnership from the requirements-gathering phase, through initial design workshops and conference-room pilot sessions, to the final build and testing. Hitachi deployed a large, onsite team and was responsible for functional, technical, and project management, testing, as well as governance.

As part of this extensive program, Hitachi upgraded John Lewis Partnership’s Oracle E-Business Suite implementation to Release 12 before designing and implementing the Oracle WebCenter solution. It was important that the look and feel of Oracle E-Business Suite was familiar to users, so Hitachi designed the Oracle WebCenter interface to resemble the John Lewis Partnership intranet.

“Hitachi provided excellent resources throughout this project. The team was more than willing to spend time with us transferring knowledge, helping to ensure that we get the best value from our Oracle implementations into the future,” said Stephen Oliphant, technical application architect, Oracle Business Service Center, John Lewis Partnership.

OK, sports fans. You've got your Vernier Go!Temp USB probe connected. It looks good with lsusb and you can see the /dev/ldusb0 device in your Raspberry Pi Linux shell.

So, how do you write a Java SE Embedded app to read in the turkey temp values. Well, as with most things, you search the Web and you can find how it was done previously in other non-Java inferior programming languages. " title="" style="border: none;" /> Here's a great example in Python on the finninday.net site.

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By now you should have received your Vernier Go!Temp USB Temperature Probe and it is getting really close now to Turkey Day, so you want kick your Internet of Things (IoT) Turkey Tweeter project into high gear now.

First, we need to test the temperature probe before sticking it into unknown places, namely our delicious IoT bird on Thanksgiving. So, take your Go!Temp USB temperature probe and plug it into your Raspberry Pi device, just like in this photo.

If your output looks like above, especially the last line where it says the Vernier Go!Temp was recognized and is connected as Device 005, you are golden.

One last check before we start to program using a Java SE Embedded app to grab the temperature readings is to make sure the /dev/ldusb0 device is present. So, type this command and make sure your output matches:

If all that looks good, you're ready for the next step which is to write a Java SE Embedded app to read the temperature values, and eventually write code with IoT intelligence to tweet out the status of your turkey while it's cooking so that it becomes an Internet of Things connected bird on Twitter. Look for that in the next part of this series... Mmmmm... I can almost smell that turkey roasting... " title="" style="border: none;" />

It's time for the Internet of Things (ioT) Thanksgiving Special. This time we are going to work on a special Do-It-Yourself project to create an Internet of Things temperature probe to connect your Turkey Day turkey to the Internet by writing a Thanksgiving Day Java Embedded app for your Raspberry Pi which will send out tweets as it cooks in your oven.

If you're vegetarian, don't worry, you can follow along and just run the simulation of the Turkey Tweeter, or better yet, try a tofu version of the Turkey Tweeter.

You can buy the Vernier Go!Temp USB Temperature Probe for $39 from here:http://www.vernier.com/products/sensors/temperature-sensors/go-temp/. And, you can get the thermal reflective tape from any auto parts store. (Don't tell them what you need it for. Say it's for rebuilding your V-8 engine in your Dodge Hemi. Avoids the need for a long explanation and sounds cooler...) " title="" style="border: none;" />

The uncooked turkey can be found in your neighborhood grocery store. But, if you're making a vegetarian Tofurkey, you're on your own... The Java Embedded app will be the same, though (Java is vegan). " title="" style="border: none;" />

So, grab all your parts and come back here for the next part of this project...

Monday Sep 09, 2013

You Are Invited: Oracle Excellence Awards for Fusion Middleware Innovation

If you are planning on attending Oracle OpenWorld in just a few short weeks, don't miss this session to meet the winners of the Oracle Excellence Awards for Fusion Middleware Innovation.

These awards honor
customers for their most innovative and cutting-edge solutions using Oracle
Fusion Middleware including Oracle WebCenter of course! This was a highly competitive year with record numbers of
nominations. This is their opportunity to be recognized for this great
achievement and be honored by their industry peers. You are invited to attend
and join in the celebration at the beautiful Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Lam Research Theater.

If you live in the area or are an Oracle Partner with only an Expo pass - Register via our RSVP below and we will provide a complementary code for a Discovery Pass that will allow you to attend the Award Ceremony. Oracle OpenWorld Badges are required for admittance.

Tuesday Aug 27, 2013

Oracle WebCenter and Mobility

August 2013

Smartphones and tablets are
proliferating throughout the consumer market. Sales of smartphones
are finally overtaking feature phone sales (according to IDC) this year. In
addition, tablet shipments continue to grow, increasing 142% year over year as
of Q1 2013 (according to IDC). This enables a mobile, always-connected
workforce for many companies with B.Y.O.D. (bring-your-own-device) policies.
Many of our customers are looking for ways to provide mobile solutions to enable
employees to check email, progress issues, respond to alerts, make and
communicate decisions, and download and work on documents - all while on the go
without having to get to their laptop and log in to the corporate network.
Let's take a look at how Oracle WebCenter provides solutions for a mobile
workforce.

Oracle WebCenter
Sites 11.1.1.8 enables marketers to engage, guide, and convert customers with
media rich online experiences for web and mobile. As mobile usage has
grown, a rich and engaging mobile experience has become a necessary component
of an organization’s digital strategy. The challenge, however, is in creating
and managing mobile experiences that are optimized for delivery to the thousands
of different devices that exist today and for those to come in the future.

Organizations may choose to enable a uniform browser
experience across PC’s, tablets and mobile phones by utilizing the same Web
content, templates, site plans, and navigation for traditional and mobile
sites. Or, organizations can opt to create experiences that are tailored for
specific device types by designing customized templates and site plans for
mobile specific pages. WebCenter Sites also supports HTML-5 and responsive design
for organizations that choose to design responsive templates that render an
automatically optimized experience across device types. Users can quickly
create and edit mobile pages using visual drag-and-drop and rich text editing
tools in the WebCenter Sites authoring interface. Then, in that same interface,
they can preview and interact with that content directly in the context of
different mobile devices, even preview different devices side-by-side.

WebCenter Sites’ mobile option enables organizations to
easily extend their traditional Web presence to the mobile channel and to
deliver highly personalized and relevant multichannel marketing initiatives,
while also saving significant time and effort in managing mobile sites. See
this datasheet
for more information on WebCenter Sites' Mobility Option (new on the price
list).

Oracle WebCenter
Portal is a web platform for creating and managing role-based intranets,
extranets, composite applications, and self-service portals for desktops,
tablets, and mobile devices. Like WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Portal
11.1.1.8 introduced new tooling for the application specialists to create and
manage mobile experiences. Users can
leverage existing portals with mobile device compliant markup for mobile
devices, or they can opt to create portals that are tailored for specific
device types by creating page variants for specific devices like 10 inch
tablets or iPhones. WebCenter Portal provides
responsive design components out-of-the-box to be used for both web and mobile.
These components will adjust their layout depending on the real estate given by
the device. Like WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Portal creators can preview page
rendering and interact with their portals directly in the context of different
mobile devices within the main interface, including changing landscape or
portrait orientation.

Both WebCenter Portal and WebCenter Sites simplify
development of mobile applications with support for seeded devices and device
groups, creation of new devices and device groups, and creation of device
variants.

Portal developers gain HTML5 support with this latest
release, as well as support for mobile devices and touch gestures in both iOS and Android. Portal
developers can also create custom mobile applications leveraging the ADF Mobile
Framework, WebCenter Portal Services exposed via the REST
API, and can use developer documentation and samples provided. In addition, any
optimized web pages can be embedded into this mobile application and shown in
the embedded browser for a consistent user experience.

In addition to mobile-enabling portals, or building custom
mobile applications to interact with the portal server, WebCenter Portal also
has an iPhone/iPad
application for end users to access and interact with their portals.

Oracle WebCenter
Content users can share information efficiently on their choice of device and
in process-centric business applications. Like WebCenter Portal, WebCenter
Content provides end users with mobile applications to access and interact with
their content. The application is optimized for both smartphones
and tablets, and supports iOS and Android. Users can search, browse, view, favorite,
email, and download content, allowing them to take important documents offline.

Oracle WebCenter enables companies with a mobile,
always-connected workforce to provide their employees with the ability to access
business documents, access and interact with their portals, and to provide
their customers with rich mobile experiences.

Friday Aug 02, 2013

Organizations are still struggling to
standardize on a user interaction platform which can meet the needs of all
their target audiences. This has not
only resulted in inefficient and inconsistent experiences for their users, but
it also creates inefficiencies (productivity and costs) for the departments
that manage the applications and information systems. Portals have historically been the unifying
platform that provide IT with a common interface which can securely surface the
most relevant interactions for a given user and/or group of users. However, organizations have found that the
technologies available have either not provided the flexibility necessary to
address all of their use cases, or they rely too much on IT resources to
manage, maintain, and evolve.

Empowering the Business Groups

The core issue that IT departments face with
delivering portal experiences is having enough resources to respond and address
the influx of requirements which come in from the business. Commonly, when a business group wants a new
portal site established for their group, they will submit a request to the IT
dept, the IT dept then assigns a resource to an administrator and/or developer to
build. Unfortunately, this approach is
not scalable, it can be a time consuming activity which requires significant
interaction between the business owner and the IT resource. A modern user interaction platforms should
empower the business groups by providing them tools which they can use to build
and manage the portal experiences without the need for IT's involvement. And because business groups rarely have
technical resources (developers) on staff, the tools must be easy enough that
virtually any business user could use.
In addition, the tool must be powerful enough to allow them to build the
experience that they need, things such as creating a whole new portal,
add/manage page and page hierarchy, manage user/group access, add/modify components
within the page, etc. This balance
between ease-of-use and flexibility is key to the successful adoption of tools
which will ultimately reduce the burden on IT, respond to the needs of the
business, and deliver high-value experiences for the users.

Ready
or Not, Here They Come: Smartphones and Tablets

Recently, several studies have highlighted
that smartphone and tablet-style devices have overtaken PC's in both sales and
usage. This shift is further driving
organizations to revaluate how they're delivering data, information, and
applications to their users. Users are
expecting to get the same level of access and interaction, but in a ways which are
optimized for the capabilities of the device that they are using.

Expect
More

With the ever growing number of new IT
projects and flat/shrinking budgets, organizations are looking for
comprehensive solutions which can deliver integrated web experiences that are
tailored for the users and optimized for mobile devices. Piecing together a number of point solutions
is no longer an option. A modern portal
technology should not only address the traditional needs of integrating and
surfacing back-end applications/information, but it should enable the business
through easy-to-use tools and accelerate the delivery of mobile optimized
experiences.

Monday Jul 29, 2013

What’s Going On in Digital Experience? The
Latest in Key Trends

As with
many consumer-facing markets, digital experience tends to move pretty
fast. Just as organizations begin to get
a handle on how, where and when to best engage with their target audiences in
the digital world, things begin to shift again as consumers change their online
habits. However, there have been a
number of trends that have been more or less constant over the past few years;
some have grown steadily over time, others have been slow out of the gate, and
then quickly reached a critical mass, but they have always been cornerstones of
web experience management. While the
following is far from representative of everything that’s going on in this
dynamic market, let’s take a quick look and see what’s going on in a few key
areas:

Mobile Gets Practical

Mobile is an example of a digital
experience trend that went from ‘might do’ to ‘must do’ in the space of a year
(hello, iPhone), and has continued to grow in importance ever since. However, whereas a couple of years ago
organizations were still wondering how to best tackle the mobile experience
(mobile web, mobile apps, mobile first etc.), we’re now at a place where organizations
have a better understanding of each approach, and how to apply them to drive
specific business outcomes, whether that be engagement, self-service or
commerce.

When it
comes to mobile site management, most customers we speak with are now viewing
this as an integrated part of managing their overall online experience, while
acknowledging that it comes with a distinct set of requirements that may need
to be met separately, depending upon specific objectives. They want to maximize efficiencies by reusing
content and integrating site authoring and publishing processes across web and
mobile, and by leveraging responsive design to cut down on site development and
speed time to market. However, they also
want the flexibility of a web experience management solution that can provide
as much support as possible for mobile-specific requirements when needed, from
ease of mobile template customization, to device management.

Multi-channel Gets Back the Brand Site

Managing content and
experiences across multiple channels has continued to be a tricky problem to
solve. Basically, as more online channels have
emerged – from brand sites, to micro and multi-lingual sites, to email
campaigns, through to mobile and social– the more complex content management has
become for online marketers. Meanwhile,
against this backdrop of channel proliferation, the value and function of the
brand site itself began to get called into question (remember the trend of
companies dropping their .coms and moving to Facebook?).

What we’re seeing now is the reassertion of the
importance of the brand site; the idea of the corporate .com as a center point
of digital experience. The content that drives
activity on other online touch points (email offers, social promotions,
microsite landing pages) ultimately points back to the brand site, where all of
these channels converge, thereby centralizing marketing processes such as lead
capture or facilitating deeper brand engagement.

As a part
of this effort, web marketers are looking to be able to access the content that
is originating from other channels (regardless of where it is stored), from
within the web experience management system authoring environment, and
incorporate it within brand sites to produce a more unified, cross-channel
experience.

Personalization Comes of Age

The drive to personalize digital experiences has been an interesting trend to watch; it’s
perhaps the one that has experienced the most hype over time, but it has also
been the slowest to take hold, as it has taken a number of years for solutions
to get up to where the market needs them to be.
Of course, personalization is a broad term, and it can encompass
everything from targeting experiences to different customer segments, to making
online search more relevant and intuitive through guided navigation, to providing
tools that enable site visitors to tailor their own online experience.

One thing
that is certain is that has finally reached the tipping point, where every
organization we engage with has some sort of personalization initiative on their
short list of digital experience priorities.
That said, not all organizations want to jump in with both feet, especially
when it comes to areas like content targeting.
Some organizations are still choosing to start with smaller-scale experimentation,
using specific pages or promotional sites as targeting test grounds. Others are taking a more committed approach
and are implementing content targeting throughout the web and mobile sites. Meanwhile, a small, but growing amount are investing in fully automated,
predictive solutions.

This latter
area is where we expect to see the most interest and growth in the coming
year. Web marketers are beginning to see
the power of connecting the native targeting engines in web experience
management systems to predictive solutions that can offset the labor associated
with managing segmenting and targeting data through automation, while
delivering higher success rates for metrics like click-throughs and
conversions.

Management of unstructured content

Increasing need to collaborate

Lack of comprehensive records management

Increasing need for accountability

Persistent price wars. Evolving safety, security, and financial
regulations. Demand for 24/7 systems availability. To meet all of your
business challenges, Oracle's Technology Solutions for Travel and
Transportation deliver a powerful combination of technology and business
processes. Only Oracle powers the information-driven enterprise by
offering a unified data model to integrate information over a wide
geographical area and across multiple business units.

What’s Driving the Need for Oracle Technology Solutions at Transportation Agencies?Transportation agencies face the following key challenges and market forces that are driving the need for Oracle technology solutions:

Management of Unstructured Content. Transportation agencies are flooded with content used in the daily processes of running an organization. Content— such as real estate transactions related to right of way, project proposals, design specifications, scope of work documents, and contracts and RFIs from ongoing projects—is created and, for the most part, stored is disparate systems that are not always interconnected to one another. Multimedia assets such as images and videos require a scalable architecture that will maintain performance as the repository grows.

Collaboration Between Internal Staff and Contractors. To manage and access content across the project lifecycle, agencies require collaboration for archival, redlining, and retrieval of content—such as e-mail, digital video, engineering drawings, proposals, and survey records.

Lack of Comprehensive Records Management. To support regulatory compliance (for example, safety or finance) and eDiscovery (electronic discovery under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), agencies need to be able to efficiently access and compile all historical documents, design plans, and images needed to support litigation.

Accountability, Transparency, and Effective Stewardship of Tax Dollars. Agencies can improve their accountability, transparency, and stewardship by providing simplified Web interfaces that offer access to the agency’s public content, activity, and performance measures. For example, an agency can provide access to maps and content demonstrating its sound environmental practices, or how it’s allocating funds in accordance with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

360-degree View of Projects. Agencies benefit from a single solution that can manage projects of any size, adapt to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scale to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in an organization and on a project team.

Complete Business Intelligence. Oracle’s technology solutions provide relevant insight to everyone in an organization through interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy management. This results in improved decision-making, better-informed actions, and more efficient business processes.

“Thanks to Oracle technologies and our virtual desk project, we will be
able to offer all agents a personalized workspace tailored to their job.
In the back office, this architecture will allow us to standardize our
suite of applications and cut our maintenance costs by 50%.”– Jean Pierre Desbenoit, Deputy Head of IT Systems and Modernization, Direction Generale de l’Aviation Civile

The University of Louisville has implemented WebCenter as
part of the LOUI (Louisville Informatics Institute) Initiative, a Statewide Informatics
Network, which will improve public healthcare and lower cost through the use of
novel technology and next generation analytics, decision support and innovative
outcomes-based payment systems.

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News Limited

Country/Region: Australia

Industry: News/Media

FMW Products: WebCenter Sites

Single platform running websites for 50% of Australia's newspapers

News Corp is running half of Australia's newspaper websites
on this shared platform powered by Oracle WebCenter Sites and have overtaken
their nearest competitors and are now leading in terms of monthly page
impressions. At peak they have over 250 editors on the system publishing in
real-time.Sites include: www.newsspace.com.au, www.news.com.au,
www.theaustralian.com.au and many others

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Life Technologies Corp.

Life Technologies Corp. is a global biotechnology tools
company
dedicated to improving the human condition with innovative life science
products. They were awarded an innovation award for their solution
utilizing WebCenter Portal for remotely monitoring & repairing
biotech instruments.

They deployed WebCenter as a portal that accesses Life
Technologies cloud based service monitoring system where all customer deployed
instruments can be remotely monitored and proactively repaired. The portal provides alerts from these cloud
based monitoring services directly to the customer and to Life Technologies
Field Engineers. The Portal provides
insight into the instruments and services customers purchased for the purpose
of analyzing and anticipating future customer needs and creating targeted sales
and service programs.

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China Mobile Jiangsu

China
Mobile Jiangsu is one of the biggest subsidiaries of China Mobile. It has over
25,000 employees and 40 million mobile subscribers.

They were awarded an Innovation Award for their new employee platform powered by WebCenter Portal is
designed to serve their 25,000+ employees and help them drive collaboration & productivity.

JSMCC (Chian Mobile Jiangsu) Employee Enterprise Portal and
Collaboration Platform. It is one of the China Mobile’s most important IT
innovation projects. The new platform is designed to serve for JSMCC’s 25000+
employees and to help them improve the working efficiency, changing their
traditional working mode to social ways, encouraging employees on business
collaboration and innovation. The solution is built on top of Oracle WebCenter
Portal Framework and WebCenter Spaces while also leveraging Weblogic Server, UCM,
OID, OAM, SES, IRM and Oracle Database 11g. By providing rich collaboration
services, knowledge management services, sensitive document protection
services, unified user identity management services, unified information search
services and personalized information integration capabilities, the working
efficiency of JSMCC employees has been greatly improved.

LADWP – Los Angeles Department for
Water and Power

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the
largest public utility company in United States with over 1.6 Million
customers. LADWP provides water and power for millions of residential &
commercial customers in Southern California. LADWP also bills most of these
customers for sanitation services provided by another city department.

Friday Jul 20, 2012

Less
than six years ago, no company had a Facebook page or Tweeted about its brand
on Twitter. In fact, just a little more than 12 years ago, most companies
treated Websites like a billboard — a destination where people went to “learn”
about the company’s products. Brands controlled their messages and presented
those messages to customers and prospects.

Today,
prospects and customers look for information about a brand online everywhere
but the company-controlled Website. Social networks offer trust-filtered advice
and information that’s perceived as much more accurate. The social Web, with
its communities and user-generated content, has helped fuel a change in
attitudes and expectations across a broad population.

Another
key trend, consumerization of IT, has created a different path of innovation in
business, where the most innovative ideas and technologies are formed in the
consumer space and pulled into the enterprise, again creating different
expectations and empowered action.

Business
is under pressure from customers, employees, stockholders, stakeholders and
partners to do things differently, as the economy shifts away from the old
industrial models into an age driven by information and the Internet’s ability
to create different business models, communication channels, and open systems.
Nowhere in business are these pressures felt more than in the executive suites
across all industries, and spreading to all geographies.

Traditional
management and leadership models, just like business models, were created for a
different time, and are starting to fall short in helping businesses adapt to
change. As the pace of change accelerates, executives are finding that strategy
isn’t something that can be static, but instead must be flexible and adaptable
to real-time inputs ranging from customer feedback to changing market
conditions. Old command-and-control, hierarchical organizational structures are
too siloed and inhibit knowledge-sharing and a collaborative culture.

Management
models, just like business models, must adapt to the next-generation enterprise
that is mobile, social, collaborative, data-driven, and has an adaptable and
flexible business strategy. Next-generation executives will:

“Coach”
instead of “manage”

Value
and reward personal responsibility and accountability

Foster
an open and transparent culture that leads to higher ethical standards

Build
a culture that rewards knowledge-sharing and breaks down old knowledge-hoarding
tendencies; information is the life blood of a next-generation enterprise

Operate
in an empowering environment where employees have the power to and feel the
obligation to speak up and take action when things are not working correctly

Power
and communication are networked (not hierarchical) with people-centric nodes
connecting the enterprise together, people to people, people to data, people to
information, and people to system

All
stakeholders have a voice and can influence the community that is now the
essence of the business

Managers
exist to serve, not be served

Business
is changing, and management and business models must change to stay
competitive. The changes are mostly about culture, and culture often does not
change quickly. People fall back to habits that are comfortable, and resist
change that seems uncomfortable. While a lot of the changes that businesses are
experiencing are coming bottom-up, it is critical that executives understand
these changes and adapt to create an environment of empowerment and
collaboration.

Monday Jul 16, 2012

In today’s always-connected, global environment, the business
world is increasingly flat. Organizations must operate 24/7 utilizing teams
distributed in different locations and time zones. These frequently ad-hoc but
critical workgroups are the heart of the new social enterprise—driving business
processes forward, spearheading change to keep an organization vibrant and
relevant, and driving innovation to ensure business success.

Join us for our Social Business Thought Leaders Webcast series
featuring industry experts with leading perspectives about how social tools,
technology, and the changing workplace are affecting businesses today.

Coming up later this week, we’ll be broadcasting a fascinating discussion with one of the major technology thought leaders of this decade, Andy Mulholland. We featured Andy earlier in our webcast series and there was so much interest and so much more to discuss, that we invited him back another time.

The topic this week will be: Top 10 Technology Trends Driving Business Innovation

For those of you that aren't familiar with Andy. Here's a snip of his bio from the CTOBlog.

Andy Mulholland was formerly Capgemini Global Chief Technology Officer, Andy was a member of the Capgemini Group management board and advised on all aspects of technology-driven market changes, together with being a member of the Policy Board for the British Computer Society. Andy is the author of many white papers, and the co-author of three books that have charted the current changes in technology and its use by business starting in 2006 with ‘Mashup Corporations’ detailing how enterprises could make use of Web 2.0 to develop new go to market propositions. This was followed in May 2008 by Mesh Collaboration focusing on the impact of Web 2.0 on the enterprise front office and its working techniques, then in 2010 “Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology leaders” co-authored with well-known academic Peter Fingar and one of the leading authorities on business process, John Pyke. The book describes the wider business implications of Cloud Computing with the promise of on-demand business innovation. It looks at how businesses trade differently on the web using mash-ups but also the challenges in managing more frequent change through social tools, and what happens when cloud comes into play in fully fledged operations. Andy was voted one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the world in 2009 by InfoWorld and is grateful to readers of Computing Weekly who voted the Capgemini CTOblog the best Blog for Business Managers and CIOs each year for the last three years.

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Can You Name the Trends?

No
need to do the research. Come to this Webcast and find out. Join the
conversation as Andy discusses the 10
game-changing technology trends that will enable business innovation.

As you might expect, three of the trends discussed will be:

Mobility: from nice-to-have to a cornerstone of user engagement

Big data: how to acquire, organize, and analyze it

Cloud computing: how to build applications, automate processes, collaborate, and secure the enterprise

But you’ll have to attend the Webcast to learn about the other seven trends. Register now. And profit from the experience.

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